take back

Verb

Meaning

bring back to the point of departure

regain possession of something

cause someone to remember the past

take back what one has said

move text to the previous line; in printing

resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her. Marcus Aurelius

The concept of Blood and Soil gives us the moral right to take back as much land in the East as is necessary to establish a harmony between the body of our Volk and the geopolitical space. Richard Walther Darré

It is easier to catch an escaped horse than to take back an escaped word. Mongolian Proverb

If everyone's misfortunes were seen by all in broad daylight, in the end people would take back their own. Corsican Proverb

There is no point in living if we cannot take back our culture. African Proverb

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